On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 01:47:19PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > We also need to understand why people use -private when perhaps they > ought not. One reason is that -private has a better signal to noise > ratio than -devel or -project, and therefore people pay more attention > to it. I'm sorry to be so negative, but I'm afraid I have to say that I object to the suggestion of creating a members-only mailing list. It creates another barrier to participation in Debian at a time when we should be tearing them down. The solution to low signal to noise ratios on our "big" lists (-devel, -project, -vote) can't be creating more and more lists. We should improve the ratio instead by using working techniques. Let's not forget that it isn't always non-members who bring down the ratio. Years ago, Ubuntu split their development mailing list into an open list and one where posting was allowed for Ubuntu members only. I don't know if that's still the case, but in about 2007-2009 it didn't seem to me that it worked very well. -- Schrödinger's backup hypothesis: the condition of any backup is undefined until a restore is attempted. -- andrewsh
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